What song kept Frankie Goes to Hollywood from having their first four singles going to No. 1 in the UK?
British band Frankie Goes to Hollywood had their first three singles reach No. 1 in the UK charts. They were "Relax", "Two Tribes" and "The Power of Love".
Their fourth song was "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" from the title track to the 1984 debut album. The lyrics of the song were inspired by the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, being kept off the top spot by the Phil Collins/Philip Bailey duet "Easy Lover".
"Easy Lover" is a song performed by Philip Bailey, of Earth, Wind & Fire, and Phil Collins, of Genesis, and jointly written and composed by Bailey, Collins, and Nathan East. The song appeared on Bailey's solo album, "Chinese Wall". Collins has performed the song in his live concerts, and it appears on both his 1990 album, "Serious Hits... Live!", and his 1998 compilation album, "...Hits". It is Bailey's only US Top 40 hit as a solo artist.
The song was a No. 1 hit in several countries, including Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. In the U.S., it spent 23 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including 7 weeks in the Top 10.
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